Now onto the 3rd issue of the Spot Maldives community
e-newsletter

We had a great response to our first 2 issues. As you will see below we have a few more contributors. Feel free to send us your news, classifieds or articles to news@spotmaldives.com.
We send this newsletter to over 5000 subscribers, comprised of many people who have an interest in the Maldives, be it as a local resident, employee, traveller or business. If you would like to become our online supplier and send your business on Spotmaldives.com, please sign up here.
If you would prefer not to receive it, please let us know. You will not receive any further issues.

We will be posting classifieds soon, ranging from personal buy & sell, to real estate and jobs. If you have anything you would like to see here, just send an email to News@SpotMaldives.com - it's 100% free!

DIVA and Baboul's fiancée

	Baboul

Baboul is a young Maldivian who has spent many years on the island. After the 2005 Tsunami he saw a family of rays arrive, having been moved from the coral reef, probably due to a break in the latter. Every night, the rays swim around the stilts as if asking for their dinner. Baboul feeds them with great care. But one of them is quite literally in love, pouting, pompously swimming along and spitting out if one of its fellow creatures gets close to Baboul. They come every day under the main landing stage, on time, in all weathers and ask for attention, to the great delight of everyone.       

DIVA is also about sharing and learning about the fauna of the seas. Every evening, the rays can be seen in Baboul’s company.

Unsigned love letters, flowers, tokens and trinkets of undying affection. This is not a page from a romantic novel, but how youngsters in the Islamic Republic of Maldives plan to celebrate Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day celebrations and marketing gimmicks have, according to many, reached a new high this year, with everything from mobile phones ringtones, to mood candles chocolates, clothes, body scrubs, perfumes and lingerie being sold in the name of "love".

Mobile phone operator Wataniya is offering subscribers a choice to order and deliver fresh roses to their sweethearts by simply sending a text message to a three digit number. For 50 rufiyaas, customers also get a choice of selecting between a red, pink or yellow rose, Wataniya informed in text messages sent to hundreds of customers.

City hotels in the capital island of Male are offering quiet candlelight dinners, with soft music and flowers. In a country where alcoholic drinks are out of bounds to locals for religious reasons, few restaurants are offering non-alcoholic wine to diners.

Read More